Italian Life
A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal
$31.29
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
2 November 2021
Summary
How does Italy actually work?
The bestselling writer on Italian culture sets out to answer this question – and the results are often surprising.
“Parks…offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian.” - The Times
How does Italy really work?
When Valeria travels from hot, dusty Basilicata to begin her studies in a northern university town, she has little idea of the kind of education she will find there. Italian…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529112580 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529112583 |
| Author: | Tim Parks |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 2 November 2021 |
| Weight: | 258g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
‘The best interpreter of Italian ways in Italy’
‘The best interpreter of Italian ways in Italy’ * Sunday Herald *
‘Parks is more than just an effortless raconteur: he offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian’ * The Times *
‘All Italy is here, its history, its character, its flaws’ * Sunday Times *
Refreshingly brilliant… Parks skilfully shows how the rules and the maneuverings within Italian university life mirrors those at work in Italian society… illuminating and entertaining. When Parks takes his reader behind the scenes and into a murky world of favouritism and nepotism, back-scratching and back-stabbing, collusion and exclusion, his narrative cracks up a gear and becomes gripping * Herald *
A satisfyingly truthful, entertaining and provocative comedy that lays bare Italy’s difference, as a nation and as a joyful, warm, ever changeable people, tractable by temperament, immovably stubborn in its traditions – Julian Evans * Daily Telegraph *
Few foreigners have written more or better about contemporary Italy than Park, and his familiarity with all things Italian makes for agreeable reading… Often humorous, it is also…a chilling fable about a country that still lives by habits and expectations laid down many decades ago – Caroline Moorehead * Tablet *
About The Author
Tim Parks
Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He lives in Milan.
Parks is the acclaimed author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, A Season with Verona, Teach Us to Sit Still, Italian Ways and Italian Life. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and has won many awards for both his work in English and his translations from the Italian, which include works by Alberto Moravia, Italo Calvino, Roberto Calasso, Antonio Tabucchi and Niccol Machiavelli.
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